 by Flemming Funch
The Choose Positive Energy campaign, launched by Greenpeace and The Body Shop, challenges world governments to provide access to renewable energy for all, in particular the two billion people who live without any power, within ten years.
Tim O'Reilly has some good thoughts on Science and Consensus. It starts with a discussion of the idea (which I happen to agree with) that scientific "facts" are really just a form of consensus reality. That is, the facts are not really facts at all, but rather postulates that have become generally accepted through a process of social consensus-building. Some good references to general semantics.
Is my NewsLog HOT or NOT?
A couple of people who don't like me much, Tom Loeber and Richard Carlson, have been distributing a phoney interview with me as a sort of satire. No big deal, they seem to enjoy it, and even though they didn't exactly have my best interests in mind, it is fairly harmless. But it might be in order to link to some of the real interviews that were used for part of the content, for the sake of anybody who might be confused: Spiritech, UK, SagePlace. OK, they're really old, and here's an even older one: Internet Underground (1995). Oh, and a newer one: Catalysts for Change. Really, if anybody really wants to bother to do a good satire of me, there's plenty to make fun of. I sometimes take myself much too seriously, and sometimes say things in overly idealistic or abstract ways.
"Our choicest plans have fallen through,
Our airiest castles tumbled over,
Because of lines we neatly drew,
And later neatly stumbled over". -- Piet Hein
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